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Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories
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Sort Cards list in advanced search based on cards arrangement defined in card manager #6987

Open adamlodge opened 3 years ago

adamlodge commented 3 years ago

Currently the list of cards is sorted alphabetically within advanced search. Would be better to sort based on how the admin defines in card manager.

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dwuthrich commented 3 years ago

I disagree; for users who don't routinely edit data (and therefore don't know the admin's card order), an alphabetical listing makes more sense.

azaroth42 commented 3 years ago

This is the same issue as #6332. Propose to close one or the other.

As far as my thoughts - I would prefer card order, not because of the editor, but because of the order in the report. Normally (I would hope) the most commonly filled out cards will be at the top of the model, to avoid having a bunch of null values before the actual data. So the likelihood that the data is important, and that searches will work, is also in that order. The searching user is (I would also hope) familiar with the report structure.

Alpha is much better than the previous random order, so I don't think this is a high priority, but I'd like to keep it open.

chiatt commented 2 years ago

Logic used in #7867 might apply here as well